winding down
It seems that once you havent blogged in a while it is so easy to just keep on not blogging. Its the same with emailing friends (sorry if I haven´t responded to your email).
Well...I´m coming home is just a few weeks. Part of me wants to stay and the other part really wants to come home. But theres not point dweling on this, I´m just gonna enjoy the time I have left here.
My host mom went to the US for 18 days because her daughter there had surgery (everythings okay now). 3 nights a week the house keeper stays with us and her kids too sometimes. Its an interesting experience but Ida (thats her name) is really sweet and I like her a lot.
Im not coming back fluent in Spanish by any means. Im conversational but I have a long way to go until I really know this language. Learning it is fun and frustrating at the same time. Its encouraging when the lady that does my luandry tells me that I´ve gotten better (i barely understand her japoneese accent when she speaks spanish to me) or when a cab driver tells me I speak well. But then there are the other days when I cant form a sentence.
I feel I have not lanuage because im not fluent in spanish and my english has gotten worse.
Today I surprised a man when I asked how he was doing. He thought I was Columbian so my American accent through him for a loop...thats fun.
Argentines like to thin your hair when they cut it even when you ask them not to. I may be bald by the time I come back but my mullet is hardly noticable.
Im going to miss really fresh fruit. And the fact that everything is cheap.
I went to Urguay for a day last saturday. Its just a 3 hour boat ride across the river. I know, 3 hours to cross a silly river? Its the largest in the world (i think) and its more like the harbor or a really big lake. I had culture shock in Urguay because things are more expensive over there (but its still cheap compared to the US. I think I´m spoiled)
I almost bought a puppy to bring back to the US. But they said it needs to be 2 months older before I could do that.
i ramble
posted by kmcmurray @ 7:54 PM
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2 Comments:
Yay!!! Kayla's coming home soon!!! I can't wait til you're back and I get to hear your stories. Hope you have a safe trip back. See you in a few weeks, and I hope to get to spend time with you this summer.
love you,
Linda
Hey Kayla!
YOU should be here now, because at Piggly Wiggly, (as i typed piggly wiggly, "piggly" comes up wrong
on spell check, but "wiggly" gets away with it's awkwardness) ANYWAY. The piggly wiggly has red globe grapes at 88 CENTS a POUND!!! *grin* yes yes, I'm sure it's like 88 cents a BAG over there, but still, I was trying to give you hope for America! ;) Ally
Oh and, we miss you.
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